4/5 for #MenWhoFeedPigeons by #SelimaHill , thebookloversboudoir.wordpress.com/2021/04/27/men…, #ARC from Bloodaxe Books via Edelweiss, #amreading , #bookloversboudoir
We're delighted that Selima Hill's twentieth book of poetry, Men Who Feed Pigeons, has been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
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'I prefer to think it's unpronounceable, to go to bed and think of him as fruit'
Selima Hill reads from #MenWhoFeedPigeons
The 2022 #RathbonesFolioPrize winner will be announced on 22 March.
Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill brings together seven contrasting but complementary poem sequences relating to men and different kinds of women’s relationships with men.
Published by Bloodaxe Books
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'...surreal and direct, but always arresting' - Forward Prize Judges, 2021
'Arguably the most distinctive truth teller to emerge in British poetry' - Fiona Sampson
'She is truly gifted' - The Sunday Times
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A full-page review of #SelimaHill 's #MenWhoFeedPigeons is featured in London Review of Books of 6 October. Emily Berry @no1_emily looks at Selima's 20th collection in the context of her poetry as whole.
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Best of luck to all the writers on the #RathbonesFolioPrize shortlist, including poet #SelimaHill , who is shortlisted for her 20th book of poetry, #MenWhoFeedPigeons .
The Poetry Society